Re: broken reverse_scan in aic7xxx

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On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:44:49AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:21:59PM +0200, Stephan Seidl wrote:
> > A victim of the cleaning operation is the option `aic7xxx=reverse_scan'
> > which is still documented, but, which does no longer work. Here is some
> > output.
> > 
> > Since `aic7xxx=reverse_scan' is part of my disaster recovery concept,
> > I would like to ask whether anybody has the resources to reactivate
> > this driver option as it was before ?
> 
> The documentation should be removed ;-)
> 
> It's a simple choice between reverse_scan and supporting PCI hotplug.
> You can't have both, and we chose the latter.  The same choice has been
> made in virtually every other device driver.
> 
> I'm afraid you're going to have to change your concept.

Or you could submit a patch to implement a reverse scanning option in
the core PCI code..

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